Nazi seawater experiments

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The Nazi seawater experiments were nonconsensual experiments (July - September 1944), performed for the Luftwaffe and navy to test methods of making seawater drinkable. The experiments were conducted at Dachau Concentration Camp.

In the Medical Case (NMT), charges were placed against Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Beiglboeck, Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Karl Gebhardt, Siegfried Handloser, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Paul Rostock, Konrad Schaefer, Oskar Schroeder, and Wolfram Sievers.

The charge against Mrugowsky was withdrawn. Karl Brandt, Rudolf Brandt, Handloser, Poppendick, Rostock, and Schaefer were acquitted

Becker-Freyseng, Beiglboeck, Gebhardt, Schroeder, and Sievers were convicted.